Readers' Choice Awards 2008

The Readers' Choice Awards take the current pulse of the Linux Community year. Here are the tools you use every day in your work and play.

Favorite Web Server

Apache (90.9%)

Rather than offer a Favorite Web Server category, we should just ask
“Do you use the Apache Web server, yes or no?” and leave it at that.
Apache wins with 90.9% of your votes.

Favorite Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company

GoDaddy.com (14.7%)

Honorable Mentions

1&1 (9.8%)

DreamHost (9.4%)

Rackspace (7.5%)

Given the variety of hosting companies available today, it's no surprise
that none of them dominated the voting for Favorite Linux-Friendly
Web Hosting Company. Although the winner, GoDaddy.com, garnered a
respectable 14.7%, the real winner was “Other” with a whopping 42.4%.
Nevertheless, hats off to GoDaddy.com for its rapid rise in
popularity—it was absent from our last awards.

Favorite Network or Server Appliance

Avocent Cyclades ACS Console Server
(15.7%)

Honorable Mention

Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox (12.7%)

As with hosting, the voting for Favorite Network or Server Appliance
category was diffuse due to the rabbit-like proliferation of useful
products in the marketplace. The top vote-getter at 15.7% was the Avocent
Cyclades ACS Console Server, and following up with honorable mention
(at 12.7%) was the Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox.

Favorite Linux Handheld Device

Nokia N800 (43.9%)

Honorable Mention

OpenMoko Neo (23.7%)

In case you hadn't noticed, many of us Linux Journal editors adore the
Nokia N800. The N800 won the 2007 awards for Ultimate Linux Handheld,
and its predecessor, the N770, would have won the 2006 Editors' Choice
Award for Best Mobile Device, only we were afraid we never talked about
anything else. Well, clearly our readers dig it too, because 43.9% of you
chose it as your favorite handheld. Keep your eye on the newer OpenMoko
Neo 1973, which burst on the scene and grabbed 23.7% of the vote.

Favorite Linux Laptop

ASUS Eee PC (34.7%)

Honorable Mention

Lenovo T61p (20%)

Is there any surprise that the ASUS Eee PC got 34.7% of the vote to
win the Favorite Linux Laptop category handily? Finally, a company created
a laptop with Linux in mind and didn't consider Linux as a second-rate
afterthought. It also is nice to see that our readers appreciate
Lenovo's better-late-than-never but admirable effort to pre-install
its T61p with SLED. This helped the device win honorable mention.
Hopefully, awards like this will encourage Lenovo and others to pre-install
all of their laptops with Linux from the start. If you accumulate the
various models from our Linux-specialist friends like LinuxCertified,
EmperorLinux and R Cubed, they fared well as a group too.

Who Makes Your Favorite Linux Desktop Workstation?

Dell (30%)

Honorable Mention

Hewlett-Packard (12%)

It wasn't surprising to see PC giant Dell win top choice in this category with 30% of
the vote tally. Dell's product line has become more Linux-friendly over the years, which
shows up clearly in your preferences. HP gets an Honorable Mention for its Linux
offerings, and there were lots of write-ins for various verndors in this category, but
they were too diverse to merit a third place award. And of course, many of you chose a
home-brew solution as well.

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I'm also surprised that my favorite program Konqueror gets less than 5%, inasmuch as it is unique in offering very fast browsing and powerful if slow file management in the same window and also offer multiple windows, tabs, and window panes. Of course, few Gnome users will use Konqueror and you need Firefox anyway for some sites, but I'm not happy that KDE had to launch a new file manager Dolphin which will not help Konqueror's popularity any.www.eniyioteller.net/alanya-otelleri/index.php http://www.eniyioteller.net/kemer-oteller/index.phphttp://www.eniyioteller.net/antalya-otelleri/126.html

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I'm also surprised that my favorite program Konqueror gets less than 5%, inasmuch as it is unique in offering very fast browsing and powerful if slow file management in the same window and also offer multiple windows, tabs, and window panes. Of course, few Gnome users will use Konqueror and you need Firefox anyway for some sites, but I'm not happy that KDE had to launch a new file manager Dolphin which will not help Konqueror's popularity any.

Apache is indd the most favorite webserver. But I think that webservers like lighttpd and nginx will rise this year. They have less memory footprints and are faster then apache. The proof for this is easy to find. The most popular websites like youtube and wikipedia do not run from apache but lighttpd.

The evolution in webservers that are more specific programmed for WEB2.0 and 3.0 is started.

Regarding Jacqui's comment from May 6th, 2008, vim has extremely good documentation both from within using it and in html format. It contains informative introductory chapters and detailed reference chapters. All of this completely cross-referenced. It's a pleasure to read and sets a standard for the documentation of any complex tool.

Your position sure makes sense. Run 2008 software as if you had a 1970's machine, and yet shy away from 1970's software because it's poorly documented. (But hey, thick documentation is the ultimate bloat and can swallow lots of MB out of your 500GB disk!) What is your favorite, minimalist, run-me-on-0.1K editor, then, "cat >" ?

As for the vi documentation, were you able to write down where on earth it mentioned the META key before getting rid of it? Last time I checked you only needed ESC. Still, I'm sure such a resourceful guy could always look up one of the zillion web pages and tutorials available on the subject...

So finally we get to know who the cool winners of this year's Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards for 2008! Ubuntu is a real surprise as I've heard that it is quite complicated and needs getting used to!! All the others were more or less expected! Hope this will add more competition between them and we customers get the most out of it!! But it was wonderful work done by you guys and Linux must be appreciated for their wonderful world of web!!Internet Satellite

I voted for vi even though I'm using vim, because *only occasionally* do I use one single extra feature, namely syntax highlighting. Whenever I type vi or vim, my screen reads "Running in Vi compatible mode", and that's how I like it best.

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